chirm

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No sound came to break the quiet of the evening hour save the monotonous plaint of a whippoorwill in a distant brake, and the ceaseless chirm of insects among the leafy boughs and down in the ferns that clustered on the knolls round about.

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  1. To chirp as a bird. The bird chirms as it is whistled to. Wodroephe, Fr. and Eng. Grammar (1623), p. 505. Now listening to the chirming of the birds. W. W. Story, He and She, p. 1.
  2. To emit a mournful sound, as birds collected together before a storm.
  3. To utter as with a chirp.
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  • No sound came to break the quiet of the evening hour save the monotonous plaint of a whippoorwill in a distant brake, and the ceaseless chirm of insects among the leafy boughs and down in the ferns that clustered on the knolls round about. —  The Golden Dog
 

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  1. Also charm (see charm), formerly written cherm, churm, from Middle English chirmen, from Anglo-Saxon cirman, cyrman (= Middle Dutch Middle Low German kermen, karmen), cry out, shout, make a loud noise; cf. cirm, cyrm, clamor, noise. See charm, and cf. chirk, chirp, and chirr.
  2. Also charm, formerly written cherm, churm, from Middle English chirm, chyrm, from Anglo-Saxon cirm, cyrm, clamor, noise: see the verb.
 

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